[This bug is targeted to the upcoming trixie release]

The package build-depends or depends on python3-pkg-resources, which is
deprecated upstream. Details can be found at

https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html

Use of pkg_resources is deprecated in favor of importlib.resources,
importlib.metadata and their backports (importlib_resources, importlib_metadata).
Some useful APIs are also provided by packaging (e.g. requirements and version
parsing). Users should refrain from new usage of pkg_resources and should work
to port to importlib-based solutions.

Python 3.12 in unstable provides both importlib_resources and
importlib_metadata, so no additional dependencies on those packages are needed.

While pkg_resources is indeed deprecated upstream, there's nothing that
we can sensibly do about it at the Debian level in lazr.* or zope.*, and
it's not even as clear as you might hope what to do upstream.  They all
do something like this in an __init__.py (with unimportant variations):

I don't want to force it.  the separation of this module into it's own
module is a Debian specific change to avoid runtime dependencies on
pkg_resources.  So you'll find a lot of hard-coded dependencies that are
just not used anymore. That's what I want to catch for the trixie release.

Matthias

Hi,

Now that there's a way to define namespace packages without pkg_resources,
can this bug be reconsidered?

I don't know how the communication with Ubuntu  devs works.

Greetings

https://git.launchpad.net/lazr.restfulclient

It'll have to be done as a flag day, in the same sort of way as the
recent Zope work (https://github.com/zopefoundation/meta/issues/194).  I
have no objection but also no time for it.

FWIW, the lazr.* packages are maintained by Canonical's Launchpad team
rather than by Ubuntu developers as such (I'm not sure any of that team
are Ubuntu developers now that William and I have both left).

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
lazr.restfulclient, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1083460@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> (supplier of updated lazr.restfulclient package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:16:15 +0100
Source: lazr.restfulclient
Architecture: source
Version: 4.0.0-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Python Team <team+python@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Closes: 1083460
Changes:
 lazr.restfulclient (4.0.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * d/watch: Switch to PyPI.
   * New upstream release:
     - Replace pkg_resources namespace with a PEP 420 native namespace
       (closes: #1083460).
   * Drop "Rules-Requires-Root: no", default as of dpkg-dev 1.22.13.
   * Drop "Priority: optional", default as of dpkg-dev 1.22.13.
   * Standards-Version: 4.7.4.
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